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The Liberals’ budget has the money for an army of young people to aid small businesses transitioning to the digital age, but it can’t yet say when that army will be deployed.
The budget put aside a total of $4 billion for a variety of measures aimed at helping businesses adapt to online sales. The Canada Digital Adoption program was part of that and received $1.4 billion over four years, including money to put 28,000 young Canadians on the government payroll and send them to small businesses looking to sell online.
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Ottawa's budget measures for small- and medium-sized businesses include pandemic-related program extensions and funding boosts even as the government rolls out a $15 federal minimum wage.
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TORONTO - Small business owners and advocates say Ottawa should rethink the eligibility requirements for subsidies after Monday’s federal budget failed to include companies launched shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic of after it began.
Mountain Men s Barbershop co-owners Laura-Lee Gambee, left, and Heidi Forster pose in their Collingwood, Ont., shop in an undated handout image. Small business owners and the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses say companies started in the months leading up to COVID-19 or those that opened during the pandemic don t qualify for the recently-extended rent or wage subdies or a new hiring subsidy the government announced Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kiley VanderMeer, MANDATORY CREDIT